Hot Tea

I woke up wanting a cup of hot tea really wanted one last night after watching that new show Who Do You Think You Are.  it is  about finding you family from years ago .The show uses old church birth records and the modern day Genealogy .com to trace back your family. The blond girl  Kim Cantrell I think is her name from Sex In The City was on last night and she is nothing like she portrays in the movies. She said on Joy Bahar show she is an actress and did her job well. I love that show of Who Do You Think Your Are.
I am not a Rosie O'Donnell fan  but her story was soooooo sad I cried and cried. BOO Hoo I always cry when they go all the way back and find out what happened to their family. Kim's family was from Liverpool England however they live in Canada now her Mother and two Aunts.

Well here's to you Britain's and the love of hot tea.

I am going to show some of my pretty tea cups anyway I think they are pretty. Love this red and white cup the little sugar I found at TJ Maxx and the tea pot at an estate sale i thought it went with my Mason cups not in the picture.

Then of course my all time favorite my Staffordshire blue calico tea pot and cup

      I like this set of brown calico cups. A friend found them listed on Craig's list a set of 8 cups $15. so I had to rescue them. Then I found the saucers at different estate sales. The brown and white tea pot is from TJ Maxx
             

       This set is I only have cups and saucers and luncheon plates they didn't have a tea pot to match I always just use my calico tea pot with the yellow chintz cups
 

 I have one green depression cup and this green sugar shaker minus any sugar LOL. I love this big sugar bowl with the green transfer ware pattern I bought it at an high end antique store and she had it marker 1880 and the mark  Gazelle on the bottom. I can imagine some southern belle serving her fine sugar from it at a tea luncheon out on the lawn under a huge tree. Love it

My sweet little Iris and herringbone cup and saucer

      My sweet cabbage rose Sharon cup I borrowed a saucer from the yellow chintz . I don't mind using odds and ends together make it interesting.

Now i have 4 of these little rose pattern cups and saucers that I bought at our resale shop here in town. I never noticed it till someone said it's getting  harder to find pretty tea cups any more so I thought I better grab these up before the are existent (did I spell that correct)sometimes my spell check is sick

   Love these odds and ends. I have my loose tea in this candy dish

 I love the inside of this flo blue cup and just had to show it off

     Another set I have had for years I bought this in St Louis and it was an reproduction of an old set. I just love it and have used it all over my house for something. The large tea pot and the decanter for loose  tea

                                                         

It's time to make a cup of hot tea I use Whittard Of Chelsea tea My friend in Portland ordered it for me from England. We use to get it at a tea shop in Seattle down on the City Market area. The shop doesn't carry it any longer she said to expensive. So I am loving every sip of this hot tea today, setting here looking out my home office window at the snow on my beautiful tree I hang my curtains in. The little birds are all eating up the sunflower seeds I threw out for them the snow and ice is still on everything. Tomorrow it is to really warm up very fast to 60 !!!!

 OK I am pouring us a cup of Summer Pudding tea

                                                  
         Please check out this blog she has British tea at The Charm Of Home
                                  
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Here is a cute blog I just found BoogieBoard Cottage and she a posting about the Grammy's food  on Masterpiece Monday's
Between Naps On The Porch always shows great things and love the before and after things
I just ran accross this blog A Re-Purposed Life and she had a Sunday Linky party

Now it's Tuesday and time for Tabletop Tuesday's at A Stroll Through Life
How about Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm and her great Goodwill finds

Please go look at these great tea sets at Silken Purse Wanda Lee Invited me over for tea